Political culture and the resource curse: public sector corruption across the United States

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Marc S. Mentzer
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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to examine the connection between political culture and public sector corruption, using the typology of Daniel Elazar, whose model traces the types of political cultures to their origins in various regions of England. Similarly, the “resource curse” concept, generally treated as a national-level phenomenon, is examined to assess how it might vary among jurisdictions within a country.

Design/methodology/approach

Regression analysis was applied to data from the 50 states of the US. Public sector corruption in each state was operationalized as the number of convictions by the Public Integrity Section of the US Department of Justice in relation to the number of public sector employees in that state.

Findings

Among the 50 states of the US, support was found for the association between political culture and public sector corruption. On the other hand, whether a state’s economy was dominated by natural resource extraction was not related to public sector corruption. This latter finding suggests the “resource curse” phenomenon does not cause corruption to be worse in states with resource-dependent economies.

Research limitations/implications

Although it is appropriate to apply regression analysis to a data set of the 50 US states, the small size of the data set limited the number of predictor variables that could be examined. Alternative research approaches are discussed, and it is conceivable that another analytical technique might have revealed other predictors that affect the occurrence of corruption.

Originality/value

While numerous studies have examined the impact of political culture and resource orientation on corruption at the national level, the current study examines how these variables affect corruption at the level of subnational jurisdictions within a major developed country, the United States.

政治文化与资源诅咒:美国各地公共部门的腐败现象
本研究旨在利用丹尼尔-埃拉扎尔(Daniel Elazar)的类型学研究政治文化与公共部门腐败之间的联系。同样,我们也对通常被视为国家层面现象的 "资源诅咒 "概念进行了研究,以评估其在一个国家的不同辖区之间可能存在的差异。各州公共部门腐败的操作方法是美国司法部公共廉政科的定罪数量与该州公共部门雇员数量的关系。研究结果在美国 50 个州中,政治文化与公共部门腐败之间的关系得到了支持。另一方面,一个州的经济是否以自然资源开采为主与公共部门腐败无关。研究局限/启示尽管对美国 50 个州的数据集进行回归分析是恰当的,但数据集的规模较小,限制了可研究的预测变量的数量。本研究讨论了其他研究方法,可以想象,另一种分析技术可能会揭示出影响腐败发生的其他预测因素。原创性/价值虽然已有许多研究探讨了政治文化和资源导向对国家层面腐败的影响,但本研究探讨了这些变量如何影响美国这个主要发达国家的次国家管辖范围内的腐败现象。
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期刊介绍: The Social Responsibility Journal, the official journal of the Social Responsibility Research Network, is interdisciplinary in its scope and encourages submissions from any discipline or any part of the world which addresses any element of the journal''s aims. The journal encompasses the full range of theoretical, methodological and substantive debates in the area of social responsibility. Contributions which address the link between different disciplines and / or implications for societal, organisational or individual behavior are especially encouraged. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical papers, speculative essays and review articles. The journal also publishes special themed issues under the guidance of a guest editor. Coverage: Accountability and accounting- Issues concerning sustainability- Economy and finance- Governance- Stakeholder interactions- Ecology and environment- Corporate activity and behaviour- Ethics and morality- Governmental and trans-governmental regulation- Globalisation and disintermediation- Individuals and corporate citizenship- Transparency and disclosure- Consumption and its consequences- Corporate and other forms of organization
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